Nutriendo PR launches investment fund to support innovative projects, nutritional security
April 7, 2022
During the fund’s first year, candidates will be chosen for up to four projects to receive a grant of $150,000 for three consecutive years.
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Creative Startups opens course to 32 up-and-coming businesses in Puerto Rico
April 6, 2022
The business acceleration course in Puerto Rico is open to entrepreneurs from all creative sectors.
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2 Puerto Rico-based entities get JetBlue Foundation grants
March 9, 2022
The InterAmerican University of Puerto Rico and the EcoExploratorio were chosen among 12 grant recipients.
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WCK, Marc Anthony Foundation seek to fund network of community kitchens
March 8, 2022
The applications window will be open through April 5, 2022.
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Foundation for PR lands $1M SBA grant to support 150 businesses
February 24, 2022
The nonprofit received a $1 million grant through the SBA's Community Navigators Pilot program.
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Puerto Rico Legal Aid: Barely 33% of $325M in rent payment aid has been used
February 16, 2022
The organization called on the Public Housing Administration to expand the educational campaign for the program that covers up to 15 months of rent and utilities.
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Espacios Abiertos unveils interactive map of effects of tax credits
February 9, 2022
The new tool allows visualizing the impact on the economy and on people's pockets of some $2.6 billion that can be received from tax credits.
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Grupo Guayacán opens annual call for I-Corps PR program
February 8, 2022
The 14th cohort of the program starts in April with virtual workshops for 30 teams.
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Bravo Family Foundation sets its eye on new generation of entrepreneurs
February 3, 2022
The Bravo Family Foundation (BFF) announced the launch of the Bravo Challenge for Youth, a project that aims to promote a new breed of entrepreneurs by developing their entrepreneurial abilities and skills while they are still in high school. In its initial phase, the project is focusing its efforts on high school students in the […]
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70% of Vimenti programs participants get jobs upon graduation
December 27, 2021
Vimenti — a Boys and Girls Club program originated in Santurce in 2018 — has established empowerment and job programs that have helped 7 out of 10 of its participants to find jobs in several areas, its Executive Director Bárbara Rivera, confirmed. The nonprofit created the “Empleabilidad y Carreras” program that helps people get jobs […]
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PRxPR has allocated $1.5M in donations since Hurricane María hit
December 22, 2021
Motivated by the devastation that Hurricane María brought upon Puerto Rico when it hit in September 2017, a group of private citizens came together to help via a nonprofit that to this day continues to aid local communities overcome different challenges. In an interview with News is my Business, PRxPR founder Carmen Báez confirmed that […]
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Habitat for Humanity delivers apartments in Santurce worth $1.9M to 12 families
December 21, 2021
The dream of homeownership became a reality for 12 families with the help of Habitat for Humanity of Puerto Rico, which delivered apartments worth a combined $1.9 million in Santurce. The investment was financed through a $50 million donation from biopharmaceutical company AbbVie. The project located on Ponce de León Ave. included the acquisition, rehabilitation, […]
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Albanistería marks 1st year of leading women into self-sufficiency
December 6, 2021
The Albanistería workshop is marking its first anniversary as an organization helping women and girls build a path to self-sufficiency by learning to skills in repairs and construction work. The project located in Bayamón, and founded during the COVID-19 pandemic, has already trained more than 320 women and 60 girls since 2020, including a cabinetmaking […]
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Direct Relief, Abbvie grant $1.9M to improve rural drinking water systems
November 30, 2021
Direct Relief, with the support of pharmaceutical company AbbVie, awarded a $1.9 million grant to nonprofit organization Por los Nuestros — dedicated to providing renewable energy solutions, advocacy for communities and public health — to install renewable energy systems in 25 rural aqueducts in communities without drinking water service. The Anones Maya rural community aqueduct […]
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Vitrina Solidaria launches campaign to help entrepreneurs reduce poverty traps
November 25, 2021
The Vitrina Solidaria nonprofit organization, together with 22 entrepreneurs, has launched a campaign based on six key values for a more solid and supportive economy that should break poverty traps faced by business people out of need, so they can reach new markets and benefit communities. These ventures usually come from people in communities of […]
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